right now brigands are more efficient in terms of soloing named encounters with their interrupts and being able to kite a monster. now a bruiser could always invest in something to snare monsters, but im lazy.i know of brigands less geared and less mastered that can do many more named encounters than i can. one reason is that im still str line and i think that hurts us too much after eof release. i am missing all the extra avoidance from throwing 8pts into deflection and parry AA's. not to mention stats and procs from weapons. im hoping to get the two pvp weapons soon when i get enough status. the baton has hands down the best proc ever for pve. a ward for about 700 damage, 350 power heal or so, and some other effect i forgot.